It’s Your Turn Winnipeg

Today I received the new marketplace magazine, in it they talk about website do’s and dont’s, tweets, social media and why the kid down the street should not build your website.

Glenn Tinley CEO of marketplace magazine mentioned on his blog that we live in a city and province that I believe has a business inferiority complex.

I agree with Glenn to a certain extent, but having been here 2 years now after relocating my offices from the US & England I think it goes a little further than that.

Inferiority complex? maybe, knowledge gap? absolutely, certainly were the Internet is concerned, It was like stepping back 10 years when I first arrived.

Winnipeg has a lot of great developers, but more amateur builders working from the basement than most and I’m sorry I have yet to meet a techie, web designer or developer who is any good at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and I am speaking from 15 years experience.

Chris Brown wrote a good piece in there, mainly good practices to follow, but I will bet my bottom dollar someone will read that and all of a sudden they will be another expert in Winnipeg.

I fully back Glenn on his dream with the Chamber and the Asper School of Business of putting our thriving business community on the map both regionally and globally, BUT until these people realise there is life after Brandon, I’m pretty sure it will go the way of all the other ideas before it.

When Winnipeg finally decides to fully harness the power of the Internet to progress business, tourists and the City, I hope they call in the right people, traditional media just does’nt cut it anymore.